The “Selfie Kid” who snapped a viral photo with Justin Timberlake at the top of the singer’s 2018 Super Bowl halftime show spent this past Super Bowl weekend in a different way.
Ryan McKenna, now 18, was arrested Saturday at a shopping center in Naples, Florida, where he was allegedly drunk and fighting with friends inside a California Pizza Kitchen, based on TMZ.
A 15-year-old boy greeted cops on the restaurant and reportedly told them that he and the social media star, whom he called a friend, had been in an argument that escalated, with McKenna allegedly standing up and aggressively pushing their table.
He supposedly screamed obscenities on the boy’s girlfriend, too.
Nevertheless, McKenna’s mother, Tracy, told the outlet that her son was not under the influence and he was play-fighting along with his friend after one among them pulled Ryan’s chair out from under him.
Cops also said that McKenna tried again to fight with the 15-year-old again while they were talking to the boy, based on TMZ. McKenna was allegedly asked to step away but kept after him until police took him aside to calm him down.
McKenna reportedly became aggressive with law enforcement, waving his arms, yelling and attempting to approach the 15-year-old boy, while they tried to elucidate to him that shopping mall security wanted him escorted off of the property.
They said they attempted to restrain McKenna, but he allegedly continued yelling and tearing cops’ hands off of him.
Officers claimed to TMZ that McKenna resisted arrest, saying he still fought back before they were in a position to handcuff his hands behind him.
In keeping with his arrest records, McKenna was arrested on felony battery of a law enforcement officer, plus two misdemeanors: resisting an officer without violence and battery of an officer.
He was booked on the Collier County Sheriff’s Office and released on bond on Super Bowl Sunday.
McKenna is due back in court on March 6.
A couple of months after his viral 2018 moment with Timberlake, the 2 reunited for a latest selfie when the singer performed in Boston that April. During a post-Super Bowl appearance on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” McKenna had been invited to satisfy up by the previous boy band member.
